A close-up view of the sea-dragon art sculpture at Fannie Mae Dees Park, Nashville, Tennessee, circa 1980s. Located at Blakemore Avenue and 24th Avenue South, this urban park has informally been referred to as Cavert-Eakin park because of the...

A close-up view of the sea-dragon art sculpture at Fannie Mae Dees Park, Nashville, Tennessee, circa 1980s. Located at Blakemore Avenue and 24th Avenue South, this urban park has informally been referred to as Cavert-Eakin park because of the...

A close-up view of the sea-dragon art sculpture at Fannie Mae Dees Park, Nashville, Tennessee, circa November 1982. Located at Blakemore Avenue and 24th Avenue South, this urban park has informally been referred to as Cavert-Eakin park because of...

A group of adults and children gathered at Morgan Park, located at Hume Street and Fifth Avenue North in North Nashville, circa July 1926. The Park Board purchased Frederick Laitenberger’s German beer garden occupying the block between Hume and...

A group of people gathered at the Sulphur Fountain at Morgan Park, located at Hume Street and Fifth Avenue North in North Nashville. The Park Board purchased Frederick Laitenberger’s German beer garden occupying the block between Hume and Fifth...

A landscape scene at Morgan Park, located at Hume Street and Fifth Avenue North in North Nashville. The Park Board purchased Frederick Laitenberger’s German beer garden occupying the block between Hume and Fifth Avenue in 1909 to provide a park...

A landscape view of Dudley Park (Louise and Rebecca Dudley Park), located at Chestnut Street and Third Avenue South in Nashville, Tennessee. When purchased in 1913, it was known as the Chestnut Street Park and served as a playground for that park...

A landscape view of Dudley Park (Louise and Rebecca Dudley Park), located at Chestnut Street and Third Avenue South in Nashville, Tennessee. When purchased in 1913, it was known as the Chestnut Street Park and served as a playground for that park...

A landscape view of Dudley Park (Louise and Rebecca Dudley Park), located at Chestnut Street and Third Avenue South in Nashville, Tennessee. When purchased in 1913, it was known as the Chestnut Street Park and served as a playground for that park...

A nighttime view of the National Life and Accident Insurance Company skyscraper at with the message displayed on the lighted windows to “Fight Cancer,” circa 1970s. This building was later purchased by the state, the William R. Snodgrass Tennessee...

A photograph of Belmont Baptist Church located on the corner of 12th Avenue South and Beechwood Avenue. Two men stand outside of the entrance. The church was built in 1906 as Belmont Baptist Church. In 1921 the church was sold and became Waverly...

A photograph of Bill Hudson and Associates, an advertising agency that stands on the lot of the former Immanuel Baptist Church located at 1701 West End Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. Construction on Immanuel Baptist Church was started in 1911 and...

A photograph of Christ Church Cathedral located at 900 Broadway Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee. Christ Church Cathedral serves as the Cathedral for the Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee. Originally built in 1830 on the corner of Sixth Avenue and...

A photograph of Jefferson Street Missionary Baptist Church located at 2708 Jefferson Street in Nashville, Tennessee. Historically called Jefferson Street Baptist, this church's congregation was founded in 1887 when a coffin maker started a Sunday...

A photograph of Lawrence Avenue Church of Christ located at 904 Lawrence Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. The church building was constructed in approximately 1912 as the Lawrence Avenue Christian Church, and has seen many different congregations...

A photograph of New Hall Intermediaries, an insurance office, located at 1230 Second Avenue South in Nashville, Tennessee. This building was constructed in 1873 by Morton Howell after he purchased the lot on Market Street (now Second Avenue). ...

A photograph of Newsom's Mill, along the Harpeth River, near Bellevue, located a few miles southwest of downtown Nashville, Tennessee. The original grist mill was built several years earlier; this grist mill was built by Col. Joseph M. Newsom in...

A photograph of Ocean Way Nashville Recording Studios, formerly Church of the Advent, an Episcopal church located at 1200 Seventeenth Avenue South in Nashville, Tennessee. The congregation was formed in 1857 and the church building was erected in...